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The first known record of the name 'Forest Gate' comes from the West Ham parish registers of the late 17th century [2] and describes a gate placed across the modern Woodford Road to prevent cattle straying from the open Wanstead Flats area of Epping Forest onto the main Roman road (Romford road) linking Camulodunum to Londinium.
- Nicole Garcia Merida
- Giovanna’s Deli & Wine. ‘We go here to stock up on great cheeses and also really good Italian wine. My mum goes to buy pesto and pasta and things like that too.
- Cups & Jars. ‘We shop at this zero-packaging shop a lot. You just take along your containers and fill them up. We get everything for the household and bulk stuff there.
- Ramble Cafe E7. ‘We go to this café a lot throughout the week and at the weekends to get cakes. They do really good-quality food and they have really good coffee.
- The Holly Tree. They did this pub up really nicely a couple of years ago, restored it in a really thoughtful way. They do good food and have a good selection of beers: three or four cask options, which is really nice, and cider on tap.
Epping Forest is the perfect antidote for busy city life – and Forest Gate residents have it on their doorstep. The forest is home to more than 50,000 ancient trees and 100 lakes and ponds (look out for the waters of Strawberry Hills, where wildlife is particularly abundant), and made up of more than 50 distinct areas of woodland, grassland ...
Forest Gate has a surprisingly star-spangled past: Stevie Wonder, the Who and Nina Simone played at the Upper Cut Club on Woodgrange Road in the Sixties. What’s the commute into London like? A 12-minute train ride to London Liverpool Street via Stratford.
May 6, 2016 · Below we provide a round-up of what is known of Forest Gate's monuments - sadly, in some cases, not much! The Gurney obelisk and water trough on The Broadway, Stratford Although this is clearly not in Forest Gate, in a strange way it provides the link, which connects almost all the other monuments and art works covered in this and the following ...
Aug 8, 2018 · The local comprehensive Forest Gate (co-ed, ages 11 to 16) in Forest Lane gets the “outstanding” rating as does St Angela’s Ursuline RC (girls, ages 11 to 18) in St George’s Road.
Forest Gate. In the late 1870s, Archibald Corbett’s father Thomas’s entrepreneurial spirit had led him from commodity trading into an altogether riskier business: speculative housing development.
